Out of 1,300 top government roles tracked, only 360 have been confirmed in the second year of the Trump administration.
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The Charlie Kirk ShowJul 30, 2026
The extracted claim departs from the passage: the post says roughly 800 top roles (out of 1,300) require confirmation and that 360 of those 800 are confirmed, while the claim attaches 360 to the full 1,300 pool.
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… You make this point brilliantly all the time. According to the Partnership for Public Service and the Washington Post tracker, more than a hundred Trump nominees are still sitting in the Senate right now, with about a hundred and eight awaiting action. All told, there is approximately 800 top roles that they track out of 1300 that require confirmation. The 800, only 360 have been confirmed, and we are well into Year Two of Trump 2.0. What are we doing here? What are we doing here? We don't get these windows of time where we control the Senate and the House and the White House. What are we doing? …
The Charlie Kirk Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The Brookings report describes more than 1,300 Senate-confirmed positions and 352 confirmations by the end of Trump's first year, so the 1,300 base is supported as a total pool.[1]
Context. Later reporting gives different confirmation totals (591 civilian nominations per Politico in September; 466 total confirmations per the Washington Post as of October 20), which do not directly match a 360 figure for year two.[2][3]
Context. The claimant's passage ties the 360 figure to a 800-role subset requiring confirmation, not to all 1,300 roles, so the claim changes the scope of the figure.
Sources
3 sources: 1 primary, 2 tier 2
- 1Assessing President Trump's second-term staffing recordbrookings.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 2The White House's unfinished noms listpolitico.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 3Trump administration faces record vacancies in Senate- ...washingtonpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
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